Beijing.
Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Sitting behind the office desk, a man with slightly sparse hair and a slightly aged face finished reading the report in his hand. He immediately shook his head and gently threw it on the table.
"This isn't the right thing to do."
Yesterday at noon, the moon landing project bidding conference came to an end. The conference report was quickly sent to his desk.
Even though the moon landing project was mainly handled by the second-level bureau, the Communist Party of China attached great importance to the moon landing project. The Senate had personally asked about this matter many times. Therefore, as the head of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, he had to treat this matter with 120% of his attention.
However, who would have thought that the moon landing project would have such a big disagreement?
Ion thruster propulsion or chemical propulsion?
If possible, it would be better to have both at the same time. Unfortunately, the funding for the moon landing project wasn't unlimited. Even though the country invested a lot in scientific research, it wasn't unlimited.
How to choose between them was indeed a difficult question.
The middle-aged secretary looked at the silent leader and didn't say anything. However, he was trying to figure out what the minister was trying to say.
Is he dissatisfied with Director Li's handling of this matter?
Or is he troubled?
He hesitated for a second and spoke.
"This bet doesn't have a contract in black and white. It's just a verbal agreement recorded in the minutes of the meeting … Should I go and discuss with both sides to take a step back and cancel this bet?"
Hearing the secretary's suggestion, the department head smiled and shook his head.
"There's no need to do that."
No need to do that?
Didn't you say this was the wrong thing to do?
The secretary was muddled.
Even though he didn't know what to do, his experience in the department told him that if he didn't know what the leader was thinking, it was best to keep his mouth shut.
The minister looked at the silent secretary and spoke.
"Xiao Li did not do the right thing, but it's not wrong either. Let the experts argue about the academic issues. When they come to a conclusion, we'll just choose the best."
"So you're saying we should just ignore them?"
"Not really." The minister shook his head and thought for a second before saying, "Compared to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, Star Sky Technology is still too weak. For the sake of fairness, we have to give Professor Lu a hand."
With Professor Lu's influence, he wasn't worried about the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation playing tricks.
If the two sides competed fairly in the field of technology, they would be able to promote each other.
Most importantly, no matter who won, they wouldn't lose anything …
At the thought of this, the director couldn't help but curl his lips into a smile.
The Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation had been living comfortably for too long. It was good to give them some pressure.
The secretary instantly understood and immediately asked, "How are you going to help?"
After pondering for a moment, the minister continued.
"Let's contact the Air Force Equipment Department and see if they are interested."
"I don't know much about the space shuttle and ion thruster propulsion system, and neither do you."
"In the end, it's worth developing …"
"Let the experts have the final say!"
…
Academician Zou naturally welcomed Lu Zhou's proposal to collaborate on research and development.
The Institute of Computational Materials of the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study was famous in the field of materials science. Regardless of whether it was the experimental facilities, the equipment, or the professionalism of the researchers, it could be ranked first in the world.
Not to mention, Aurora University and Harbin Institute of Technology had no reason to refuse due to their outstanding achievements in the controllable fusion project.
Not to mention, having a Nobel Prize laureate participate in the project, whether it was from the corporate level or the national level, was much better than having a single academician as an academic leader.
With the cooperative research and development agreement signed with Harbin Institute of Technology, Lu Zhou boarded a plane back to Jinling the next day. On the way back, he sent the relevant information of the research project back and assigned tasks to each research team.
Generally speaking, the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study's project could be divided into two parts. One was "neural interface", and the other was "bionic bone".
The former was jointly managed by the Institute of Computational Materials and the Institute of Information Engineering, which was established at the beginning of the year. It had the same priority as the "carbon-based chip" project from a year ago. The latter was a cooperative project with Harbin Institute of Technology, which was mainly handled by the Institute of Computational Materials. It had a lower priority than the "lithium-air battery".
As for projects like the servo motor and neural electrical signal processing used in the robotic arm, the Jinling Institute for Advanced Study didn't have any talents in these fields, so Lu Zhou didn't join in.
Even though these technologies were important, they weren't enough to interest him.
There were so many projects, he couldn't take on all of them, right?
Even if other people didn't mind, he would still be exhausted.
Of course, no matter how interested he was in these projects, his focus was still on aerospace.
After the flight landed at Jin Ling City Airport, Lu Zhou didn't even go back home. Instead, he went straight to the space shuttle assembly center and found the person in charge, Hou Guang.
After Lu Zhou saw the skinny chief engineer and director, he was about to speak, but Hou Guang spoke first.
"I've already heard about the bet from CEO Chen."
"… Good, that saves me the trouble." Lu Zhou looked at him with surprise. He silently thanked Chen Yushan in his heart and said, "Time is of the essence. I know this task is difficult, but this is related to whether our project can continue. I hope you can work harder and finish the prototype by next January. "
"By next January?" Hou Guang had a troubled look on his face, but he still nodded and said, "I'll try my best."
Even though this task was difficult, it wasn't impossible.
After all, he had seen the processing power of the production equipment.
Also, the most critical parts of the engine and functional equipment had been solved. The rest of the technology could be used as a reference from the 863 program. As long as a few key problems were solved, building a prototype shouldn't be a problem.
At most …
I'll just sleep in this office for now!
Hou Guang gritted his teeth and made up his mind.
He then said, "One more thing."
Lu Zhou: "What?"
"We still lack an astronaut to test the prototype." Hou Guang paused for a second and said, "Of course … There are a lot of things that need to be done. Two would be even better."
When Lu Zhou heard the astronaut, he slapped his forehead.
"I almost forgot about that … Okay, I'll think of a way to solve this problem. It shouldn't be too urgent, right?"
Hou Guang thought for a bit and said, "It's not urgent, but try to do it within a month."
Within a month?
Lu Zhou rubbed his chin.
He wouldn't have enough time to train himself.
Being a space shuttle pilot was much more demanding than being a commercial pilot. Not only did this require physical fitness, but it also required mental fitness. Selecting and training a person capable of flying a space shuttle mission was a difficult task for Star Sky Technology, which lacked both time and money.
Lu Zhou had an embarrassed look on his face.
Even though he didn't want to trouble others …
But it seemed like he had to find a way to ask the relevant departments for help.
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